The Feilding Star. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1885. A Market Day

Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 50, 6 October 1885, Page 2

The Feilding Star. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1885. A Market Day

In the last Government Gazette appears a new scale of railway charges, among which we observe that a new feature in the passenger fares, is the introduction of market tickets to be issued to all passengers for towns in which there is a weekly market, and on the same terms as Saturday returns tickets. In order to receive the full advantage of this concession it will be necessary for a particular day in the week to be selected as the acknowledged market day for Feilding. At present the great stock sales of Messrs Stevens and Gorton, and Halcombk and Sherwill, are held on Tuesday and Thursdays respectively in each month. Saturday is already recognised as market day in Palmerston, and Wednesday in Wanganui. Monday being unsuitable for many reasons one of which ought to suffice, viz., that produce cannot he made up, nor cattle mustered and driven on Sunday, leaves the choice between Tuesday and Thursday for the Borough of Feilding. Assuming that the business people here will take the necessary steps to have a certain day in each week proclaimed the market day, we would suggest that great weight be given to the convenience of the beforementioned firms, and their clients; inasmuch as on them will depend for a long time to come the support of the market. When a regular market day is an established fact, farmers will be tempted to send in a few samples of produce of all kinds to be disposed of in small quantities, either by private sale or public auction. This would be no loss of time or money to them, even if, for the first two attempts, they did not do much, because none of our farmers attend the Feilding stock sales unless j they appear as buyers or sellers. I Suburban residents would be able to come in from their farms to make their weekly purchases of goods at the stores, and at the same time keep themselves well posted up in the various fluctuations of the rates for stock or produce, and so take advantage of them. In our opinion a j regular market day would prove a means of attraction to hundreds of persons who, although living within a radius of but a fe-jr miles, are now comparative strangers to the many attractions held out by the business houses of the Borough.